AS6-05-07
651 66540

www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~leowwk

LEOW Wee Kheng

Associate Professor

  • Ph.D. (Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1994)
  • M.Sc. (Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 1989)
  • B.Sc. (National University of Singapore, 1985)

Dr. Leow Wee Kheng obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He pursued Ph.D. study at The University of Texas at Austin and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994. His curent research interests include medical image analysis, surgery planning and simulation and general computer vision. He has published more than 130 technical papers in journals, conferences, and books. He has also been awarded three U.S. patents and a Singapore patent. He has served in the Program Committees and Organizing Committees of various conferences. He collaborates widely with a large number of local and overseas institutions. His current active collaborators include Singapore General Hospital, National University Hospital and Multimedia University, Malaysia.

RESEARCH AREAS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Medical Image Analysis

  • Surgery Planning

  • Computer Vision

  • 3D Models

  • Image Processing

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • S. Xie, W. K. Leow and T. C. Lim. Improved Laplacian Deformation for Reconstruction of Defective Skulls. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Aug 2017.
  • J. Lai, W. K. Leow, T. Sim, and G. Li. Multi-View Separation of Background and Reflection by Coupled Low-Rank Decomposition. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Aug 2017.
  • S. Xie and W. K. Leow. Flip-Avoiding Interpolating Surface Registration for Skull Reconstruction. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Dec 2016.
  • J. Lai, W. Leow, T. Sim, V. Sharma. Think Big, Solve Small: Scaling Up Robust PCA with Coupled Dictionaries. In Proc. IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision, Mar 2016.
  • W. K. Leow, G. Li, J. Lai, T. Sim, V. Sharma. Hide and Seek: Uncovering Facial Occlusion with Variable-Threshold Robust PCA. In Proc. IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision, Mar 2016.
  • K. Zhang, W. K. Leow, Y. Cheng. Performance Analysis of Active Shape Reconstruction of Fractured, Incomplete Skulls. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Sep 2015.
  • J. Lai, W. K. Leow, T. Sim. Incremental Fixed-Rank Robust PCA for Video Background Recovery. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Sep 2015.
  • W. K. Leow, Y. Cheng, L. Zhang, T. Sim, L. Foo. Background Recovery by Fixed-rank Robust Principal Component Analysis. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Aug 2013.

AWARDS & HONOURS

  • CAIP 2017 Best Paper Award

  • 2007 Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award for the best paper published in all 3 SMC Transactions, Part A, Part B, and Part C, in 2006.

  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for AY2015/16

  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2015/16

  • 4 patents granted, 5 patents filed

MODULES TAUGHT

CS5240
Theoretical Foundations in MultiMedia
GEI1000
Computational Thinking
GET1031
Computational Thinking